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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema |
| Author | Hilary Neroni | | Publisher | SUNY Press |
| Publication Date | 2/1/10 |
| Subject | Feminist, Film Studies, Women's Studies |
| Pages | 1 |
Looks at how violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals.
In The Violent Woman, Hilary Neroni brings psychoanalytically informed film theory to bear on issues of femininity, violence, and narrative in contemporary American cinema. Examining such films as Thelma and Louise, Fargo, Natural Born Killers, and The Long Kiss Goodnight, Neroni explores why American audiences are so fascinated—even excited—by cinematic representations of violent women, and what these representations reveal about violence in our society and our cinema. Neroni argues that violent women characters disrupt cinematic narrative and challenge cultural ideals, suggesting how difficult it is for Hollywood—the greatest of ideology machines—to integrate the violent woman into its typical narrative structure.
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Hilary Neroni ---
Hilary Neroni is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont.
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"Neroni's brilliant revelation in this impressively argued and highly engaging work is that film as an artistic medium can either be like the nonviolent woman, upholding certain symbolic laws, or it can boldly go beyond to disrupt—through depictions of jouissance—the limits of the law." — Sheila Kunkle, coeditor of Lacan and Contemporary Film
"Neroni's use of psychoanalytic concepts is well motivated and the terms clearly explained and integrated into the argument. The issues of femininity and violence are considered with respect to several manifestations in film and culture, both historical and contemporary, and the topic is covered with great breadth." — Lia M. Hotchkiss, Central Connecticut State University
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